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Nov 2022
34m 38s

Nursing a Dispute

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Why are nurses going on strike and what could it mean for the NHS? Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, and Shaun Lintern, health editor at the Sunday Times, discuss what’s driving nurses to strike and how patients could be affected.

Jeremy Vine updates us on the latest results from the US midterms.

And David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee and a former Labour MP, talks all things COP27, and debates whether he should join Mastodon.

This episode of Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade, Danny Wittenberg and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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